Nurse Clinics - Putting Your Ideas Into Practice

Nurses generally have an abundance of ideas about how they can develop areas where nurse consultations can have a vital input to preventative healthcare - and of course in creating bonded clients, improving client compliance, providing nurse job satisfaction, and increasing practice revenue and standards of client service - but it's just getting started that's the difficult bit! What tends to happen is that it always stays on the back-burner, and everyday practice just takes over - rendering nurses frustrated that their ideas are never made to happen, clients and their pets missing out on a great service, and practices losing out on a highly valuable resource. ONCORE are currently developing a module that will help put together a strategy for planning, implementing, marketing and developing the nurse clinics aspect of your practice. Whether you already run nurse clinics, and just want to expand or refine this; or haven't yet got underway - this module will be a vital step in moving forward. Examples of some areas covered include:

• Exploring the current competition
• Ideas and opportunities
• Developing a clear plan for implementation of ideas
• Developing a pricing structure
• Marketing your nurse clinic services
• Areas which may cause difficulties, and how to deal with them

As with all ONCORE modules, the course is highly interactive, so nurses with differing experiences from differing practice backgrounds are able to learn together and from each other. The tutor will be veterinary nurse Jill Macdonald, who has 15 years experience of practice, and was fundamental in setting up chargeable and highly successful nurse clinics in the practice where she worked as head nurse. Module dates to be confirmed - please contact Jill to register your interest.

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